Faan san jose walk

I picked up many free samples and coupons. There were also a couple of local non-profit and for-profit organizations. The walk itself was supposed to be about 2. It was easy and mostly flat with only one small hill. I brought along my B. B stroller so it was a comfortable stroll.

The weather was great for all of us walkers. There were teams of walkers — and I think I should get one going for Mantou next year. I was a little too eager to get going on the event that I left my car headlights on and when I was ready to leave the event, I was unable to start my car.

It took the kindness of strangers and fellow FAAN participants to get my car rolling again. Overall the experience was good, I only wish that there would have been more attendees. Tags: FAAN , walk. You are commenting using your WordPress.

You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. Brian Hom: I helped set up some of his assemblies in San Jose. We did maybe six, seven, eight assemblies at middle schools and elementary schools.

Paul Antico: Yes. How were the reactions of the school administrations themselves, given that there are some schools that really get it and some that have been holding out, for lack of a better way of putting it?

Brian Hom: Well, some of the schools that we did were those that B. We also planted trees there. She was the emcee for my walk. We also had Kyle at my walk, we had some big entertainers, and we had athletes come and support us. Paul Antico: One last thing on advocacy. Brian Hom: I opened a restaurant and got involved with Vitality Bowls [restaurant chain] as a franchisee. My involvement now is making a safe place for people with food allergies and also raising awareness.

Brian and Kathy Hom, who became food allergy advocacy crusaders after their son B. Photo courtesy of Vitality Bowls. Paul Antico: Were you interested in the restaurant business before you became a food allergy advocate? Brian Hom: The founders of Vitality Bowls, Roy and Tara Gilad, husband and wife, had a four-year-old daughter that had food allergies and could never find a safe place for her to eat. They were into healthy lifestyles and healthy food, so they opened their first store in San Ramon in and it was successful.

They started franchising in I was working in the high-tech business for 37 years until I started looking to work elsewhere when I attended a one-hour seminar on opening your own restaurant franchise. Paul Antico: Wow. Can you tell us a little more about how you keep food-allergic customers safe at your Vitality Bowls restaurant? If they do, we mark the ticket going to the kitchen, that if they have a peanut allergy, a nut allergy, dairy allergy—or you know, a certain fruit allergy, we make sure we move it to a separate station.

We have nut-free blenders, so we can prevent that cross-contamination. Second, we do have an EpiPen stocked right at the point of sale, to be used on any customer who we see having a severe food allergy reaction.

Third, we have an alarm system in the store that can call the ambulance, can call the fire department across the street, can call the police department, and we can call Kaiser. The Kaiser Emergency Room is within a mile away. What was the process of doing it? Was it challenging or easy?

Brian Hom: It was fairly easy. Paul Antico: Jumping back into your restaurant, what kind of food allergy training does your staff go through?

Brian Hom: To make sure your staff understands how severe food allergies can be, and that you really need to take food allergies seriously. Brian Hom: Nope. Only the big chains that actually have programs, have food allergy training, menu guides, and stuff.

Paul Antico: You think that there needs to be a lot more education, particularly with the independents, and a lot more training? Brian Hom: Yes, we have a lot of them. Gluten intolerances, people with nut allergies, dairy allergies, some fruit allergies. Some people have strawberry allergies or such, but yes. Paul Antico: Before my last question, I again want to thank you for all your support of the food allergy community and once more offer my sympathies for how it began.

Hopefully your efforts over all these years has helped saved the lives of other children and adults. My guess is that they have. I would just give this advice. Losing a child is very difficult. Losing them to food allergies is just mindboggling. If you have an opportunity to make it safe as a restaurateur, or make it safe as a parent, or anything, help people understand that food allergies can be fatal. You only get one chance. The day that B. But my takeaway for everybody is to take food allergies seriously.

Be vigilant to prevent having a fatal reaction to food allergies. People are going to stop eating out. Well, thank you, Brian. No longer.

I need to be as serious and vigilant about the real risks from each of their allergens now as I was after the initial diagnoses. I thank Brian for that important reminder. I can only wonder if any lives have already been saved by the sharing of his story and his advocacy efforts over the past 10 years. I also appreciate Brian taking the lead in keeping epinephrine autoinjectors in his restaurant.

This is another element we need to share. I know many restaurants in my home state of Massachusetts where stock epi is not yet allowed in restaurants are ready and willing to take advantage of this opportunity to provide another layer of protection for their guests.

Please share any thoughts or comments here. We want to hear your voices. Of course, we still encourage reviews of every dining experience you have every time for the benefit of all of us.

Thanks for this important facts and the personal history of Mr. Brian Hom. My family have food allergy and We underestimate the possibility of a severe reaction, but now we will have more care and never go out without Epipen. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Costa Rica. When someone develops a food allergy, everyone in the family must learn to adapt.

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